Re: Neither poop nor pee for the last 6 days now...
Re: Neither poop nor pee for the last 6 days now...
Ya dont sweat the pooping, the snake will be fine, they can go a long time without defecating. If your really worried after a long period of time, a nice warm soak for the snake will encourage a bowel movement. Just make sure the water isnt too deep, they can drown, make the water come up about half the height of the snakes body when its lying down, so just a half inch or so of water, make sure that the water is just luke warm not hot! If your hand is in the water and it feels hot than that is way to warm, just like a baby bottle you dont want to burn them. I use plastic sweaterboxes to soak my snakes so they cant get out, just cut them a few airholes and throw the lid on and let them soak for 20 minutes.
2 weeks is not too long for a poop, sometimes they will just poop once a month, dangerous constipation is not a common problem unless they somehow ate a ton of substrate and blocked up their guts, which i doubt is your problem.
Re: Neither poop nor pee for the last 6 days now...
Definitely normal, and it depends on how much they are eating and growing as well.
I adopted an underfed BP a month ago, and it gained 150g in the last month, and it was just a little over a month before it took its first poop -- and it was the biggest poop I had ever seen (and I have been keeping snakes for quite a while).
My male 1.5 year old hasn't eaten for two months, and hasn't pooped for over a month now...
Re: Neither poop nor pee for the last 6 days now...
Out of curiosity I averaged the time between poos for my two guys over the last year and it is about 27 days. The longest was 43 days and the shortest was 18 days not to worry. they go when they go, what is normal for you is not the norm for a snake.
Alex
Re: Neither poop nor pee for the last 6 days now...
This just goes to show what great pets snakes make, they only eat every week or so when full grown, and they only poop once a month on average!
I wish my dog was like that!
Re: Neither poop nor pee for the last 6 days now...
lol, seems like the snake is the worst pooper on the whole animal kingdom (since i pretty much owned every kind of legal pets). :D the worst pooper is my hamster which poops like every 5 minutes (exaggerated, but you get the drift) but its k since is so small anyways. i guess next would be my dog where its big and such and can be smelly and wet. lol.
hmmm... the godzilla poop you're talking about, how big is 'big'?? (in inches if possible, also the width lol)
Re: Neither poop nor pee for the last 6 days now...
The poop in my blood python must be about 10 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide, atleast... You can actually feel the poop in his body, you can even see it, he looks all full and stuffed, this measurement is admittedly a guess cuz this is all from me palpating his bowels but thats what it looks like to me...
The funny thing is, he is getting less packed with poo cuz he is growing faster than his poop is building up, so recently he looks slightly less stuffed, lol... So bizarre, but I have heard of bloods doing this before...